...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |The Magna Carta was a set of laws generated by the barons of |When the thirteen US colonies became independent from Great Britain in 1776, it | | |England and the Archbishop Steven Langton of the Catholic |needed to set a central government to pass laws and enforce the laws. During this | | |Church to limit the powers that King John possessed during the |time many British settlers followed the great Britain law that was put in place by | | |12 century and of any king thereafter. The Magna Carta came |the Magna Carta. In 1789 the United States Constitution was ratified and many of the| | |into law on June 15, 1215 and marked the beginning to a |Magna Carta laws were introduced to the foundation of what is the United States | | |constitutional England where the laws were promised to be good |Constitution. Such laws as that of no man should...
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...United States of America The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of America. It consists of seven articles all created to make sure each member in the court of law is being honest and it states what their exact job in the courtroom is. They are expected to follow these exact laws as they are written from how many congressmen are elected per state down to how they would be elected. The Constitution is the oldest and the shortest written constitution in the entire world. In creating the Constitution, the states were both defensive and understanding. Although the document provided rights that were very much needed to the American citizens of this world it pointed out all of the problems That were wrong with our country. The United States of America has been ran under two different constitutions, the first being the Articles of Confederation. With the way the Articles of Confederation was created the Constitution was very much needed. The Articles of Confederation was put in effect on March 1, 1781 due to the Continental congress who were acting on behalf of the Americans which they had no right to do. Not too long after came the Constitution which has been in place since June 21, 1788. The Constitution was developed in order to replace the Articles of Confederation and fix a few issues the founding fathers found needed to be corrected over the short time it was established. There was a ton of weaknesses in the Articles of confederation that the Constitution...
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...There were many differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. At the end of the American Revolution, the free states needed some of control that would generate to a unified country. Issues were that the people want equal rights, and a new government. Their first attempt at solving this issue was the Articles of Confederation, which was a failure for the most part, but not completely. After the failure of the articles, the state delegates tried to revise the articles, but instead, constructed the Constitution. There were so many changes made and very little remained the same. Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution had a greater sense of central government. In the Constitution a president was the executive. The president was the person that can approve or veto the new rules. After gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States was operating under the “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.” Under the Articles, the states retained sovereignty over all governmental functions that were not relinquished to the federal government. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier...
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...Grant M. Ritchie POS-301 November 16, 2014 Jonathan Roeder Constitutional Timeline Our Founding Fathers relied on the information found in the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Federalist Papers to help draft the United States Constitution. These documents played a significant role in developing the United States of America. I believe without the support of these documents the Constitution would never existed. Those who created the Magna Carta brought on some of the liberties we appropriate today. The Magna Carta’s one important law includes freedom of the church. The freedom is also in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which states freedom of religion. King John was forced to sign this document in 1215. “The Magna Carta also imposed limitations of the King of England and established a parliamentary form of government with powers to act on the citizens behalf,” (AuBuchan, 2001, p. 1). The Magna Carta is comparable to the constitutional form of government which establishes Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. The Magna Carta contained due process which led to trial by jury also included under Article Three Section Two of the U.S. Constitution. The words of the Fifth Amendment are mentioned in the Magna Carta. Rough seas and storms stopped the Mayflower from reaching their destination. The settlers ended up in Cape Cod. “Mayflower Compact, document was signed on the English ship Mayflower...
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...sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today. Magna Carta was the principal document forced onto an English King by a group of his matters, the feudal barons, in an effort to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. It was followed and directly influenced by the Charter of Liberties in 1100, in which King Henry I had specified particular areas wherein his powers have a limit. The influence of Magna Carta can be clearly seen in the United States Bill of Rights, which enumerates various rights of the people and restrictions on government power, such as: No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. Article 21 from the Declaration of Rights in the Maryland Constitution of...
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...The Articles of Confederation was an agreement between the founding thirteen states that established the United States of America. While the Articles of Confederation had its flaws, it did serve an important purpose at the time it was written. Some of the strong points include: the Land Ordinance of 1785, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, defined territories, and establishment of an adequate temporary government. At the time, the American colonies had suffered under the long tyranny of England’s King George III and the American colonies’ primary goal was to establish a government in which its people would be protected from such domination. The Articles of Confederation did this, claiming very little power over individual states and people. Furthermore, in the Articles of Confederation territories and rules between states were explicitly laid out, with states gaining an understanding of how they played into the federal government. Lastly, the Land and Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 respectively were established in the Articles of Confederation. The Land Ordinance defined the general practices of land surveying and land ownership provisions. This ordinance was considered a success, in that may people were able to purchase and secure land with very little trouble. The Northwest Ordinance required some of the original states to give up land near the Ohio River. This land was later used for the development of five new states. Furthermore, the Northwest Ordinance abolished slavery...
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...The United States Constitution overcame the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and provided organization for the new government. In the 1780’s, the United States composed their first form of government after the colonists won the Revolutionary War against the British. This first form of government was known as The Articles of Confederation, which gave power to the states and created a unicameral legislature. A new constitution was made at the constitutional convention, which formulated many different compromises such as The Great Compromise, and the Three-Fifths compromise. Some people believed that the Constitution should be ratified, and some people thought it should not be, these people became known as federalists and antifederalists. While the articles of confederation created the first form of government for the states, it had many flaws. Some of these were resolved at the Constitutional Convention by creating many compromises, but people known as anti-federalists still thought that the constitution should not be ratified. This was solved by...
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...as so during the Revolutionary War, even before the Articles of Confederation were drafted and ratified. By understanding how the Articles of Confederation came to be, one can see why the Constitution was needed. The Constitution addressed weaknesses within the Articles of Confederation and it addressed the complaints regarding the Declaration of Independence. It included Great Compromise, which outlined how the states would be represented in Congress. The Articles of the Confederation were drafted between 1776 and 1777 because the Continental Congress had been acting on behalf of Americans without having the authority to do so (Schultz, 2012). “In the absence of a federal government, theContinental Congress had assumed a number of rights and responsibilities, such as creating theContinental Army, printingmoney, managing trade, and dealing with debt” (Schultz, 2012). The Articles of Confederation lacked in certain areas, however, and did not really create any new ideas. The Articles of Confederation essentially just put on paper how it was in America at that time. The Articles of Confederation did not give the central government much power at all with most of the power residing at the state level. Initially, the central government included only one representative per state, making up the “Committee of the States” (Schultz, 2012). The Constitutional Congress, on the other hand, had five powers under the articles: (1) to declare war and make peace; (2) to make international...
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...as so during the Revolutionary War, even before the Articles of Confederation were drafted and ratified. By understanding how the Articles of Confederation came to be, one can see why the Constitution was needed. The Constitution addressed weaknesses within the Articles of Confederation and it addressed the complaints regarding the Declaration of Independence. It included Great Compromise, which outlined how the states would be represented in Congress. The Articles of the Confederation were drafted between 1776 and 1777 because the Continental Congress had been acting on behalf of Americans without having the authority to do so (Schultz, 2012). “In the absence of a federal government, theContinental Congress had assumed a number of rights and responsibilities, such as creating theContinental Army, printingmoney, managing trade, and dealing with debt” (Schultz, 2012). The Articles of Confederation lacked in certain areas, however, and did not really create any new ideas. The Articles of Confederation essentially just put on paper how it was in America at that time. The Articles of Confederation did not give the central government much power at all with most of the power residing at the state level. Initially, the central government included only one representative per state, making up the “Committee of the States” (Schultz, 2012). The Constitutional Congress, on the other hand, had five powers under the articles: (1) to declare war and make peace; (2) to make international...
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...The Man Who Shaped America During the year of 1783, the heroic war for American Independence was coming to a close as King George III of England granted the colonists their independence to be a new and free nation. However, great challenges still laid ahead for the new citizens of the United States, ones that would still be debated to this day. In the midst of this turmoil, one man led the polarized nation through the battles that won them their independence and the crucial decisions afterward that would forever affect the entire course of history. George Washington was agreeably the most influential individual that impacted the history of the United States. Washington led an army of farmers to victory against the British military, the strongest...
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...Historical Essay: Confederation and Constitution By History 405 Professor Aimee James January 26th, 2015 Historical Essay: Confederation and Constitution Confederation and Constitution As Colonial America moved from civil disobedience to open war with Britain, the States, at the behest of the Colonial Congress, started drafting constitutions and in the process “became laboratories for constitutional experimentation” ( Keene 120). The need to ensure a strong union and to ensure that it was strong enough to deal with both internal and external issues drove the colonies to send delegates to Albany to draft the Articles of Confederation. Ratified in 1781, the Articles of Confederation framed a new United States of America. The Articles of Confederation did not create a national government, “but rather a firm league of friendship” (Keene 121). Ultimately a fear of recreating the issues that were driving them from British rule shaped the Articles of Confederation and created a weak government with little power. It setup a national legislature called Congress where each state had one vote. It had no power to levy taxes, regulate commerce or otherwise interfere with the States. It could create money and declare war or peace. Notably any changes or amendments required a unanimous vote of Congress and “because of its weaknesses, Alexander Hamilton and other delegates called for a convention to be held in Philadelphia to improve and amend the Articles” (Articles of confederation 2014). The...
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...James Madison Sr. and Nellie Conway Madison. As a child, Madison often got sick and hardly ever left his mother’s side. Nellie Conway’s father was a rich tobacco worker, and that’s how James Madison Sr. obtained his wealth. Some of Madison’s most vivid memories were his fears of being attacked by Indians, during the French and Indian war (1754-1763) and he remembered the day when his family and he moved to a big house in Montpelier. Madison also suffered from psychosomatic, or stress induced, seizures or fits, that taunted him throughout his life. Madison was the oldest of twelve children, who loved and respected him; James Madison loved to read and write, and enjoyed studying classical languages. Madison was raised on the family plantation in Orange County Virginia. When Madison turned fifteen, he left Montpelier to attend the college of New Jersey, which later became Princeton; Madison had mastered two languages while attending the university: Latin and Greek. He completed his years of college in two years, but stayed at Princeton another...
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...Influences on the Constitution Marlene Monarrez HIS/301 December 3, 2012 Instructor: Andrew Van Ness Influences on the Constitution Table |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta | Issued by King John of England in 1215 when Englishmen went to the colonies they were | The Magna Carta gave Englishmen certain human rights, | | |given charters that guaranteed them and their heirs would “have and enjoy all liberties and |freedom of religion, reform of justice system and regulated | | |immunities of free and natural subjects.” The document clearly stated that no free man could|officials. The Magna Carta limited the king’s power and created | | |be prosecuted by any means other than the law of the land. |what we know today as parliament. | | |The Magna Carta had been the very first document which proclaimed personal liberties. The | | | |Magna Carta was forced upon an English Emperor by a team of barons. This had been the first |This was used as...
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...The Confederation and the Constitution | | | | | Shortly after Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the delegates at the Second Continental Congress agreed that a new government was necessary to govern the now-independent colonies. After much debate, they drafted and adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777. Although the Articles were not officially ratified until 1781, they served as the actual constitution until that time. Under the authority of the Articles, the states created a national Congress comprised of annually elected delegates from all thirteen states. Each state had one vote in Congress, and, in most cases, decisions were made based on majority rule. The National Congress’ powers over the states were specific and definite: it had the sole power to negotiate treaties, declare war, and make peace. It also reserved the right to maintain an army and navy and regulated interaction with Native Americans in the West. The delegates also granted Congress the power to resolve interstate disputes, grant loans, print money, and operate a national postal system. Eventually, Congress was also authorized to govern western territories until they achieved statehood. All powers not granted to Congress were reserved for state governments. Congress had no power to levy taxes. For example, it could only request that the individual states raise revenue to cover their share of national expenses. Furthermore, any amendments made to the Articles...
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...the time? It’s all really based on you opinion * a 2000 study of undergraduates showed that 64% did not trust the government Why do we care if people are turning out to vote? * Voter turnout is a sign of political efficacy as well as engagement * People who are engaged are more informed, more likely to communicate with their representatives, more likely to advocate for their interests, and hold public officials accountable for their actions. Political culture * The people’s collective beliefs and attitudes about government and political processes * What is it that binds us together as Americans? * Our political ideologies * Our political values – liberty, capitalism, equality, consent of the governed, individualism Ideology * Political ideology is an integrated system of ideas or beliefs about political values in general and the role of the government in particular * Ideology provides a framework for thinking about politics and policy preferences Ideologies * Modern liberalism is associated with ideas of liberty and political equality: * Tend to favor chance in social, political and economic realms to better protect individuals and produce equality What is the constitution? * Fundamental principles of a government and the basic structures and procedures Two US Constitutions * Articles of confederation ( 1781-1789) * Constitution of the united states (1789-present) Events leading up to the US constitution ...
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